Keeping the priorities in order

While motherhood and alphaship together had made for a busy life, that didn’t mean Aurielle didn’t have a toe on the pulse of her pack. She’d seen contentment and a pleasant drive to make a life here in Daelos, however, from the beginning, it seemed that Ochre, her cousin’s mate, had only been there because his mate and children were here. He had shown no true effort to involve himself, only tending to his close family rather than the pack as a whole.

She wasn’t a fool to think that if he left Daelos would stay, so when the older woman and her mate came into sight, with a certain note of business, she rose and pressed her nose to her cousin’s cheek, nodding to Ochre, uncertain whether he would welcome a familial greeting. Her smile was no less warm for her lack of physical touch, however.

She stepped back, studying the two as her haunches lowered, long tail flicking neatly to coil at her paws in a pool of silken hair. “I have all the time you need, Daelos.”

There was a note of knowing to her voice, in the way her ears curved toward them, though she let Daelos take the lead.

Walk ---- "Speak" ---- "Labhair an Sean-Teanga." ---- "Hear" ---- Think